Judge, 1894-07-28 · page 7 of 16
Judge — July 28, 1894 — page 7: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page from *Judge* contains multiple brief satirical sketches typical of late 19th/early 20th-century American humor magazines. **Top comic strip** ("How I Discovered That My Neighbor Was a Dentist"): A visual gag showing someone discovering their neighbor's profession through increasingly painful encounters—likely depicting dental work or chair-related mishaps. **"Juvenile Italy"**: Satirizes Italian immigrant children, depicting stereotypical speech patterns and cultural misunderstandings (a servant's child mistakes air bubbles in ice for moth damage). **Other sketches** include wordplay about hats, progress (a boy gaining weight rather than knowledge), female suffrage jokes, and romantic humor. "The Passing Show" mocks women's suffrage by suggesting women will economize by wearing bathing suits as bicycle costumes—implying women's liberation will lead to absurd practicality. The overall tone reflects period attitudes toward immigrants, gender roles, and educational aspiration—humor that relied on ethnic caricature and anti-feminist sentiment now considered offensive.
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HOW I DISCOVEXED 1HAT MY NEIGHBOR WAS A DENTIST. 2 JUVENILE ITALY. HE servant had with some difficulty and at considerable expense procured a small piece of ice. The little signorina ran to look at it, and finding it fu'l of air-bubbles cried, “Oh, mamma, just look! This ice is all moth-eaten.” PROGRESS. Hatterson—"\ hear your boy is studying under a tutor preparatory to entering college. How is he getting on?” Catterson— Great, old. man, rag aan THE SLEEPLESS HAT, Ss\JHERE did you got dot vide-avake hat?” asked Bimby as Sandy Rhodes the tramp came into the saloon “Dat ain't no wide-awake; dats a plug hat,” said Sandy mildly. “Lcalls dot a vide-avake hat pecause id ain’d had a nap in apoud ten years,” said Bimby; and then he shut his eyes and laughed ui.t1 the tramp carried off four pig’s feet and a hatful of crackers. from the lunch- counter. In the last three months he has increased two inches around the THE PASSING SHOW. Mrs, Dorcas —" Thanks to the agitation of female suffrage, living is growing more simple every year.” Cobvigger—“1 quite agree with you. It won't be long before a girl will be able to economize by using her bathing-suit for a bicycle costume.” OMAN, according to a woman, is the noblest work of God. Un- doubtedly true; but she must be held to an awful responsibility for bringing so many of the other sex into'the world. DISPROVED ON THE SPOT. Foxp Lover—"* Darling, nothing can ever separate comicbooks.com